daedalusknight

When I think of greed, I always think of good ol’ Ben Franklin... not just because his face is on the hundred-dollar bill, but because he was always talking about money... saving, spending, investing... the man took a the vice of hoarding money and made it seem like the virtue of a level-headed spendthrift. Here’s to the man who made greed appear to be a traditional American value... save all your pennies and maybe you too will have your face printed on the cash.

The man had a lot to say about money, and he flew a mean kite to boot. Here are some of my favorite Franklin quotes:

“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”

“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”

“A penny saved is a penny earned.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”

“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”

tiaerman

We've all been that sad flower and have had that perfect girl or perfect guy stolen from us. Wasn't that a sad sad day? How are we ever going to be polinated? What a greedy flower! Commemorate that experience with this perfect design featured on a sexy lemon shirt (complete with simulated motion and shadows... kind of...)!

Please feel free to comment on anything. I am anxious to here what everyone thinks. Thank you for looking!

There are 10 types of people: those who know binary, and those who don't.

sokowa

Little forest thing finds a little forest fruit that could feed all the other little forest things. . . but do they share? NOOOOO. Someday, a bigger forest thing will come by and see the greedy little forest things and munch them up.

dasmonkeyboy

Josephus

I just don't see greed here. The saying is expressing hunger, not greed. There's a difference between gluttony as seen in The Meaning of Life and hunger as in "I was so hungry I could eat a horse." I just think this design is an attempt to wedge a cool idea that doesn't quite fit the topic into the topic.

Oh, and anacondas (or is it boas?) often will eat deer, as I understand it, in their native habitat, so a horse isn't really out of the question.

carina83

littlejetties

tiaerman wrote:I'm not sure that I am seeing this right. What is this supposed to be? How does it fit with the theme? The first thing that came to my mind is a coconut bra.......

It's the old classic con "shell game". It seemed to me that all the squirrels and gas pumps and money grubbers were already being done, So I thought I'd take a more subtle approach. Too subtle. I guess.

AnGeLiCbOrIs

shelleybfly

Josephus wrote:I just don't see greed here. The saying is expressing hunger, not greed. There's a difference between gluttony as seen in The Meaning of Life and hunger as in "I was so hungry I could eat a horse." I just think this design is an attempt to wedge a cool idea that doesn't quite fit the topic into the topic.

Oh, and anacondas (or is it boas?) often will eat deer, as I understand it, in their native habitat, so a horse isn't really out of the question.

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